Bill Of Rights

Author : Linda R. Monk
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780316417754

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The Bill of Rights by Linda R. Monk Pdf

With a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court. An Engaging, Accessible Guide to the Bill of Rights for Everyday Citizens. In The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide, award-winning author and constitutional scholar Linda R. Monk explores the remarkable history of the Bill of Rights amendment by amendment, the Supreme Court's interpretation of each right, and the power of citizens to enforce those rights. Stories of the ordinary people who made the Bill of Rights come alive are featured throughout. These include Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper who became a national civil rights leader; Clarence Earl Gideon, a prisoner whose handwritten petition to the Supreme Court expanded the right to counsel; Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year-old whose protest of the Vietnam War established free speech rights for students; Michael Hardwick, a bartender who fought for privacy after police entered his bedroom unlawfully; Suzette Kelo, a nurse who opposed the city's takeover of her working-class neighborhood; and Simon Tam, a millennial whose 10-year trademark battle for his band "The Slants" ended in a unanimous Supreme Court victory. Such people prove that, in the words of Judge Learned Hand, "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court, can save it." Exploring the history, scope, and meaning of the first ten amendments-as well as the Fourteenth Amendment, which nationalized them and extended new rights of equality to all-The Bill of Rights: A User's Guide is a powerful examination of the values that define American life and the tools that every citizen needs.

Author : Carol Berkin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476743813

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The Bill of Rights by Carol Berkin Pdf

“Narrative, celebratory history at its purest” (Publishers Weekly)—the real story of how the Bill of Rights came to be: a vivid account of political strategy, big egos, and the partisan interests that set the terms of the ongoing contest between the federal government and the states. Those who argue that the Bill of Rights reflects the founding fathers’ “original intent” are wrong. The Bill of Rights was actually a brilliant political act executed by James Madison to preserve the Constitution, the federal government, and the latter’s authority over the states. In the skilled hands of award-winning historian Carol Berkin, the story of the founders’ fight over the Bill of Rights comes alive in a drama full of partisanship, clashing egos, and cunning manipulation. In 1789, the nation faced a great divide around a question still unanswered today: should broad power and authority reside in the federal government or should it reside in state governments? The Bill of Rights, from protecting religious freedom to the people’s right to bear arms, was a political ploy first and a matter of principle second. The truth of how and why Madison came to devise this plan, the debates it caused in the Congress, and its ultimate success is more engrossing than any of the myths that shroud our national beginnings. The debate over the Bill of Rights still continues through many Supreme Court decisions. By pulling back the curtain on the short-sighted and self-interested intentions of the founding fathers, Berkin reveals the anxiety many felt that the new federal government might not survive—and shows that the true “original intent” of the Bill of Rights was simply to oppose the Antifederalists who hoped to diminish the government’s powers. This book is “a highly readable American history lesson that provides a deeper understanding of the Bill of Rights, the fears that generated it, and the miracle of the amendments” (Kirkus Reviews).

Author : Walter Surma Tarnopolsky
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9780773595439

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The Canadian Bill of Rights by Walter Surma Tarnopolsky Pdf

Author : Nat Hentoff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 0520219813

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Living the Bill of Rights by Nat Hentoff Pdf

One of America's most passionate writers about civil liberties enlivens issues about The Bill of Rights by giving profiles of individuals for whom the Constitution is a vital part of life.

Author : Helen E. Veit,Kenneth R. Bowling,Charlene Bangs Bickford
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0801841003

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Creating the Bill of Rights by Helen E. Veit,Kenneth R. Bowling,Charlene Bangs Bickford Pdf

Aside from the declaration of Independence, with its ringing cries for liberty, no public document has become as sacred to the American people as the Bill of Rights-the first ten amendments to the federal Constitution. Protecting individual freedoms and safeguarding state authority, they officially went into effect on December 15, 1791. Two centuries later the Bill of Rights and its meaning remain lively topics-in the courts, in newspapers, and in classrooms. Creating the Bill of Rights documents the legislative history of the amendments and the sharp debates they produced in Congress. The volume shows how James Madison earned the title "Father of the Bill of Rights" while working with other members of the first Federal Congress to secure the gains of the Revolution and put republican theory into practice. It also includes all of the often-colorful letters that the Bill of Rights generated among members of Congress and their constituents. Taken together, these documents offer important lessons in the history of American liberty and vividly illustrate the divisions that beset the country in its formative years. Published as part of the bicentennial commemoration of the amendments' adoption, Creating the Bill of Rights collects original papers relating to the discussions and decisions that helped shape American civic life.

Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786736010

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The Second Bill of Rights by Cass R. Sunstein Pdf

In 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a State of the Union Address that was arguably the greatest political speech of the twentieth century. In it, Roosevelt grappled with the definition of security in a democracy, concluding that "unless there is security here at home, there cannot be lasting peace in the world." To help ensure that security, he proposed a "Second Bill of Rights" -- economic rights that he saw as necessary to political freedom. Many of the great legislative achievements of the past sixty years stem from Roosevelt's vision. Using this speech as a launching point, Cass R. Sunstein shows how these rights are vital to the continuing security of our nation. This is an ambitious, sweeping book that argues for a new vision of FDR, of constitutional history, and our current political scene.

Author : James Madison,George Mason
Publisher : Books of American Wisdom
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 155709151X

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Bill of Rights by James Madison,George Mason Pdf

Printed in two colors, this leatherette edition is a guide to the first ten amendments of the U.S.

Author : Marcia Amidon Lusted
Publisher : Pebble
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781977108616

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The Bill of Rights by Marcia Amidon Lusted Pdf

Carefully leveled text coupled with primary-source images will encourage young readers to take a closer look at the U.S. Constitution's first ten Amendments, known as the Bill of Rights. Citizens of the newly independent United States proposed several freedoms, including speech, assembly, and worship--many of which are still recognized and honored today. Curriculum-based content and fact-filled sidebars help define these rights, while allowing readers to draw connections between the Bill of Rights and their daily lives.

Author : Akhil Reed Amar,Les Adams
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781628733983

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The Bill of Rights Primer by Akhil Reed Amar,Les Adams Pdf

Many Americans reference the Bill of Rights, a document that represents many of the freedoms that define the United States. Who doesn’t know about the First Amendment’s freedom of religion or Second Amendment’s right to bear arms? In this pocket-sized volume, Akhil Reed Amar and Les Adams offer a wealth of knowledge about the Bill of Rights that goes beyond a basic understanding. The Bill of Rights Primer is an authoritative guide to all American freedoms. Uncluttered and well-organized, this text is perfect for those who want to study up on the Bill of Rights without needing a law degree to do so. This elementary guidebook presents a short historical survey of the people, events, decrees, legislation, writings, and cultural milestones, in England and the American colonies, that influenced the Founding Fathers as they drafted the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. With helpful comments and fun facts in the margins, the book will provide a deeper understanding of the Bill of Rights, exhibiting that it is not a stagnant document but one with an evolving meaning shaped by historical events, such as the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

Author : Geoffrey R. Stone,Richard A. Epstein,Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1992-10-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226775313

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The Bill of Rights in the Modern State by Geoffrey R. Stone,Richard A. Epstein,Cass R. Sunstein Pdf

Also published as v. 59, no. 1 (winter 1992), of the University of Chicago law review.

Author : American Library Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UIUC:30112060168629

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The Freedom to Read by American Library Association Pdf

Author : Amie Jane Leavitt
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9781429619288

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The Bill of Rights in Translation by Amie Jane Leavitt Pdf

The Bill of Rights wasn't named after some guy named Bill. So what does it really mean? Here's your chance to learn what the Bill of Rights really says.

Author : Akhil Reed Amar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300127089

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The Bill of Rights by Akhil Reed Amar Pdf

Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and elegant legal interpretation a leading scholar of Constitutional law boldly answers yes as he explodes conventional wisdom about the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution in this incisive new account of our most basic charter of liberty. Akhil Reed Amar brilliantly illuminates in rich detail not simply the text, structure, and history of individual clauses of the 1789 Bill, but their intended relationships to each other and to other constitutional provisions. Amar's corrective does not end there, however, for as his powerful narrative proves, a later generation of antislavery activists profoundly changed the meaning of the Bill in the Reconstruction era. With the Fourteenth Amendment, Americans underwent a new birth of freedom that transformed the old Bill of Rights. We have as a result a complex historical document originally designed to protect the people against self-interested government and revised by the Fourteenth Amendment to guard minority against majority. In our continuing battles over freedom of religion and expression, arms bearing, privacy, states' rights, and popular sovereignty, Amar concludes, we must hearken to both the Founding Fathers who created the Bill and their sons and daughters who reconstructed it. Amar's landmark work invites citizens to a deeper understanding of their Bill of Rights and will set the basic terms of debate about it for modern lawyers, jurists, and historians for years to come.

Author : Gerard N. Magliocca
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190271602

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The Heart of the Constitution by Gerard N. Magliocca Pdf

"This is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the twentieth century, few Americans called the first ten amendments the Bill of Rights. When they did after 1900, the Bill of Rights was usually invoked to increase rather than limit federal authority"--

Author : Iain Currie,Johan De Waal
Publisher : Juta
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122213924

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The Bill of Rights Handbook by Iain Currie,Johan De Waal Pdf

The Handbook is a comprehensive account of over a decade of South African Bill of Rights jurisprudence. The extensive detail of the Handbook and its coverage of all aspects of Bill of Rights jurisprudence and practice have made it a standard reference work for this important area of law. The book has been thoroughly revised for the fifth edition, in particular to cover developments in the areas of application, constitutional jurisdiction and remedies and the emerging jurisprudence on the positive duties imposed by the Bill of Rights.